2 Samuel 2 Cross References - ECB

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DAVID ANOINTED SOVEREIGN
And so be it, after this, David asks of Yah Veh, saying, Ascend I into one of the cities of Yah Hudah? And Yah Veh says to him, Ascend. And David says, Whither ascend I? And he says, To Hebron. ² So David ascends thither and also his two women, Achiy Noam the Yizre Eliyth and the woman of Abi Gail, Nabal the Karmeliy: ³ and David ascends with his men - every man with his household; and they settle in the cities of Hebron: ⁴ and the men of Yah Hudah come and there they anoint David sovereign over the house of Yah Hudah. And they tell David, saying, The men of Yabesh Gilad entombed Shaul. ⁵ And David sends angels to the men of Yabesh Gilad and says to them, Blessed - you of Yah Veh to work this mercy to your adoni - to Shaul and entomb him: ⁶ and now, Yah Veh work mercy and truth to you; and I also work you this goodness because you worked this word: ⁷ and now strengthen your hands and become sons of valour: for your adoni Shaul died and also the house of Yah Hudah anointed me sovereign over them. ⁸
THE SON OF SHAUL REIGNS OVER YISRA EL
And Abi Ner the son of Ner, governor of the host of Shaul, takes Ish Bosheth the son of Shaul and passes him over to Machanayim; ⁹ and has him reign over Gilad and over the Ashshuriy and over Yizre El and over Ephrayim and over Ben Yamin and over all Yisra El. ¹⁰ Ish Bosheth the son of Shaul is a son of forty years; and he begins to reign over Yisra El and reigns two years: only, the house of Yah Hudah goes after David. ¹¹ And the number of days David is sovereign in Hebron over the house of Yah Hudah is seven years and six months. ¹²
CIVIL WAR
And Abi Ner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish Bosheth the son of Shaul go from Machanayim to Gibon: ¹³ and Yah Ab the son of Seruyah and the servants of David go and meet by the pool of Gibon: and they settle - the one by the pool here and the one by the pool there. ¹⁴ And Abi Ner says to Yah Ab, Have the lads now rise and entertain at our face. And Yah Ab says, Rise. ¹⁵ And they rise and pass over by number twelve of Ben Yamin of Ish Bosheth the son of Shaul and twelve of the servants of David: ¹⁶ each man holds his friend by the head and his sword in the side of his friend; and they fall together: and they call that place Helgath Hats Surim - in Gibon. ¹⁷ And there is a mighty hard war that day; and Abi Ner and the men of Yisra El are smitten at the face of the servants of David. ¹⁸ And three sons of Seruyah are there: Yah Ab and Abi Shai and Asa El: and Asa El is as swift of foot as one of the gazelles in the field: ¹⁹ and Asa El pursues after Abi Ner; and in going he spreads neither to the right nor to the left after Abi Ner. ²⁰ Then Abi Ner faces back and says, Are you Asa El? And he says, I. ²¹ And Abi Ner says to him, Spread to your right or to your left and hold on to one of the lads and take his clothes. - and Asa El wills to not turn aside from after him. ²² And Abi Ner adds to say to Asa El, Turn aside from after me! Why smite I you to the earth? How then lift I my face to Yah Ab your brother? ²³ And he refuses to turn aside: and Abi Ner smites him under the fifth with the back of the spear so that the spear goes out behind him; and there he falls and dies under it: and so be it, all who come to the place where Asa El falls and dies stand still: ²⁴ and Yah Ab and Abi Shai pursue Abi Ner: and the sun descends and they come to the hill of Ammah at the face of Giach by the way of the wilderness of Gibon: ²⁵ and the sons of Ben Yamin gather themselves together after Abi Ner and become one band and stand on the top of one hill. ²⁶ And Abi Ner calls to Yah Ab and says, The sword - devours it in perpetuity? Know you not that it embitters in the latter end? How long be it then, ere you say to the people to return from after their brothers? ²⁷ And Yah Ab says, Elohim lives: unless you had worded, surely then in the morning the people had ascended each man from after his brother. ²⁸ So Yah Ab blasts a shophar and all the people stand still; and neither pursue Yisra El any more, nor add still to fight: ²⁹ and Abi Ner and his men walk all that night through the plain and pass over Yarden and go through all Bithron and come to Machanayim. ³⁰ And Yah Ab returns from after Abi Ner: and when he gathers all the people there are mustered, of the servants of David, nineteen men and Asa El: ³¹ and the servants of David smite of Ben Yamin and of the men of Abi Ner so that three hundred and sixty men die. ³² And they lift Asa El and entomb him in the tomb of his father in Beth Lechem. And Yah Ab and his men go all night and come to Hebron at light.

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THE COVENANT OF YAH VEH TO ABRAM
After these words, so be the word of Yah Veh to Abram in a vision, saying, Awe not, Abram! I am your buckler and your mighty abounding hire.

¹³ - and Leah says, Blithesome - I, for the daughters call me blithed: and she calls his name Asher.

² and when Yaaqov sees them, he says, This is Camp Elohim! - and he calls the name of that place Machanayim/Double Camp.

⁸ Yah Hudah: you to whom your brothers spread hands: your hand is on the neck of your enemies; the sons of your father prostrate to you: ⁹ Yah Hudah is a whelp of a lion: from the prey, my son, you ascend: he kneels; he crouches as a lion and as a roaring lion; who rouses him? ¹⁰ Neither turns the scion aside from Yah Hudah nor a statute setter from between his feet until Shiloh come; and the obedience of the people is his:

⁶ and Yah Veh passes by in front of his face and calls, Yah Veh! Yah Veh El! Merciful and charismatic, slow to wrath and great in mercy and truth,

⁴⁰ Of the sons of Asher: by their generations, by their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, sons of twenty years and upward, all going to hostility;

²² and they ascend from the south and come to Hebron; where Achi Man, Sheshay and Talmay are - the birthed of Anak. - and Hebron was built seven years at the face of Soan in Misrayim.

²¹ and stand him at the face of El Azar the priest to ask for him after the judgment of Urim at the face of Yah Veh: at his mouth they go out and at his mouth they come in - both he and all the sons of Yisra El with him - even all the witness.

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SONS OF YISRA EL DISPUTE OVER LAND
And the sons of Reu Ben and the sons of Gad have mighty mighty many chattel: and when they see the land of Yazer and the land of Gilad, and behold, the place is a place for chattel; ² the sons of Gad and the sons of Reu Ben come and say to Mosheh and to El Azar the priest and to the hierarchs of the witness, saying, ³ Ataroth and Dibon and Yazer and Nimrah and Heshbon and El Aleh and Sebam and Nebo and Beon ⁴ - the country Yah Veh smote at the face of the witness of Yisra El, is a land for chattel; and your servants have chattel: ⁵ they say, If we find charism in your eyes, give this land to your servants for a possession and pass us not over Yarden. ⁶ And Mosheh says to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reu Ben, Go your brothers to war; and you - you sit here? ⁷ And why discourage you the heart of the sons of Yisra El from passing into the land Yah Veh gives them? ⁸ Thus your fathers worked, when I sent them from Qadesh Barnea to see the land; ⁹ and they ascended to the wadi of Eshcol and saw the land and discouraged the heart of the sons of Yisra El, to not go into the land Yah Veh gave them. ¹⁰ And Yah Veh kindled his wrath that day, and oathed, saying, ¹¹ Surely none of the men who ascended from Misrayim - sons of twenty years and upward ever see the soil I oathed to Abraham, to Yischaq and to Yaaqov; because they fulfill not to follow me: ¹² except Kaleb the son of Yephunneh the Qenaziy and Yah Shua the son of Nun: for they fulfilled to follow Yah Veh. ¹³ And Yah Veh kindled his wrath against Yisra El and he wandered them in the wilderness forty years; until all that generation who worked evil in the eyes of Yah Veh was consumed. ¹⁴ And behold, you rise in the stead of your fathers - an abundance of sinful men, to scrape together yet the fuming wrath of Yah Veh toward Yisra El. ¹⁵ When you turn away from after him, he adds to leave them in the wilderness; and you ruin all this people. ¹⁶ And they come near to him and say, We build flock walls here for our chattel and cities for our toddlers: ¹⁷ but we ourselves go ready equipped at the face of the sons of Yisra El, until we bring them to their place: and our toddlers settle in the fortified cities at the face of them who settle the land: ¹⁸ we return not to our houses until every man of the sons of Yisra El inherits his inheritance: ¹⁹ for we inherit not with them on yonder side Yarden, or beyond; because our inheritance falls to us on this side Yarden toward the rising. ²⁰ And Mosheh says to them, If you work this word, if you go equipped at the face of Yah Veh to war, ²¹ and all of you pass equipped over Yarden at the face of Yah Veh, until he dispossesses his enemies from his face, ²² and subdue the land at the face of Yah Veh: then afterward you return and become innocent at the face of Yah Veh and at the face of Yisra El; and this land becomes your possession at the face of Yah Veh. ²³ And if you work not so, behold, you sin against Yah Veh: and perceive that your sin finds you out. ²⁴ Build cities for your toddlers and walls for your flocks; and work as proceeds from your mouth. ²⁵ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reu Ben say to Mosheh, saying, Your servants work as my adoni misvahs: ²⁶ our toddlers, our women, our chattel and all our animals, be there in the cities of Gilad: ²⁷ but your servants pass over, every man equipped for hostility, at the face of Yah Veh to war, as my adoni worded. ²⁸ And concerning them Mosheh misvahs El Azar the priest and Yah Shua the son of Nun and the head fathers of the rods of the sons of Yisra El: ²⁹ and Mosheh says to them, If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reu Ben pass over Yarden with you, every man equipped to war, at the face of Yah Veh, and the land subdues at your face; then give them the land of Gilad for a possession: ³⁰ but if they pass not over with you equipped, they possess among you in the land of Kenaan. ³¹ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reu Ben answer, saying, As Yah Veh worded to your servants, thus we work: ³² we - we pass over equipped at the face of Yah Veh to the land of Kenaan, and the possession of our inheritance on this side Yarden becomes ours. ³³ And Mosheh gives them - the sons of Gad and the sons of Reu Ben and half the scion of Menash Sheh the son of Yoseph, the sovereigndom of Siho sovereign of the Emoriy and the sovereigndom of Og sovereign of Bashan - the land, with the cities thereof in the borders, - the cities of the land all around. ³⁴ And the sons of Gad build Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer ³⁵ and Atroth, Shophan and Yazer and Jogbehah ³⁶ and Beth Nimrah and Beth Ha Ran - fortified cities: and walls for flocks. ³⁷ And the sons of Reu Ben build Heshbon and El Aleh and Qiryathaim ³⁸ and Nebo and Baal Meon - their names being turned around and Sibmah: and calls names to the cities they build by name. ³⁹ And the sons of Machir the son of Menash Sheh goes to Gilad and captures it and dispossesses the Emoriy therein. ⁴⁰ And Mosheh gives Gilad to Machir the son of Menash Sheh; and he settles therein. ⁴¹ And Yair the son of Menash Sheh goes and captures the living areas thereof and calls them Havoth Yair: ⁴² and Nobach goes and captures Qenath and the daughters thereof and calls it Nobach, after his own name.

⁷ Only, strengthen and encourage mightily to guard to work according to all the torah Mosheh my servant misvahed you: turn not aside from it - right or left, so that wherever you go, you comprehend.

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THE STRATEGY OF THE SETTLERS OF GIBON And the settlers of Gibon hear what Yah Shua worked to Yericho and to Ay,

² and they awe mightily because Gibon is a great city - as one of the royal cities; and because it is greater than Ay; and all the men thereof are mighty.

⁴ Ascend to me and help me smite Gibon: for it shalams with Yah Shua and with the sons of Yisra El.

¹² Yah Shua words to Yah Veh in the day Yah Veh gives the Emoriy at the face of the sons of Yisra El: and he says in the eyes of Yisra El, Sun, stand still on Gibon! and, Moon, in the valley of Ayalon!

⁸ - with whom the Reu Beniy and the Gadiy take their inheritance - which Mosheh gave them beyond Yarden from the rising; as Mosheh the servant of Yah Veh gave them; ⁹ from Aroer on the lip of the wadi Arnon and the city midst the wadi and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon; ¹⁰ and all the cities of Sichon sovereign of the Emoriy who reigns in Heshbon to the border of the sons of Ammon; ¹¹ and Gilad and the border of the Geshuriy and Maachahiy and all mount Hermon and all Bashan to Salchah;

¹³ And Yah Shua blesses him and gives Kaleb the son of Yephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. ¹⁴ So Hebron becomes the inheritance of Kaleb the son of Yephunneh the Qenaziy to this day, because he fully followed after Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El. ¹⁵ And the former name of Hebron was Qiryath Arba; - a great human among the Anaqiy. And the land rests from war.

²⁵ Gibon and Ramah and Beeroth

¹⁸ and their border is toward Yizre El and Kesulloth and Shunem

¹¹ and they give them Qiryath Arba the father of Anaq, which is Hebron, in the mountains of Yah Hudah with the suburbs thereof all around: ¹² and the fields of the city and the courts thereof, they give to Kaleb the son of Yephunneh for his possession.

⁶ Be mighty strong to guard and to work all inscribed in the scroll of the torah of Mosheh - that you not turn aside, right or left;

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YISRA EL CAPTURES KENAAN
And so be it, after the death of Yah Shua, the sons of Yisra El ask Yah Veh, saying, Who ascends for us against the Kenaaniy to begin to fight against them?

³² and the Asheriy settle among the Kenaaniy the settlers of the land: for they dispossess them not.

¹⁹ And the Spirit of Yah Veh prospers over him; and he descends to Ashqelon and smites thirty of their men; and takes their clothes and gives the changes to them who tell the riddle. And he kindles his wrath and he ascends to the house of his father.

⁸ And Noomiy says to her two daughters in law, Go, each woman, return to the house of your mother; Yah Veh work mercy with you, as you worked with the dead and with me.

²⁰ And Noomiy says to her daughter in law, Blessed - he of Yah Veh who forsakes not his mercy to the living and to the dead. And Noomiy says to her, The man is near to us - of our redeemers.

¹⁰ And he says, Blessed - you of Yah Veh, my daughter; for you well-please more mercy in the latter end than at the beginning by not going after youths whether poor or rich.

⁹ Strengthen! Become men, O you Peleshethiy! - that you not be servants to the Hebrews as they served you. Become men! And fight!

⁵⁰ and the name of the woman of Shaul: Achiy Noam the daughter of Achiy Maas; and the name of the governor of his host: Abi Ner the son of Ner the uncle of Shaul;

¹³ Then Shemu El takes the horn of oil, and anoints him midst his brothers: and the Spirit of Yah Veh prospers on David from that day onward. - and Shemu El rises and goes to Ramah.

⁵⁵ And Shaul sees David going to meet the Peleshethiy; and he says to Abi Ner the governor of the host, Abi Ner, whose son is this lad? And Abi Ner says, As your soul lives, O sovereign, I know not.

⁵⁸ And Shaul says to him, Whose son are you, lad? And David says, I am the son of your servant Yishay the Beth Lechemiy.

² And every man in distress and every man who has an exactor and every man who is bitter of soul, gather themselves to him; and he becomes governor over them: - about four hundred men with him.

² And David asks Yah Veh, saying, Go I and smite these Peleshethiy? And Yah Veh says to David, Go and smite the Peleshethiy and save Qeilah.

⁴ And David adds again to ask Yah Veh: and Yah Veh answers him and says, Rise! Descend to Qeilah! For I give the Peleshethiy into your hand.

⁹ And David knows Shaul plots evil against him; and he says to Abi Athar the priest, Bring near the ephod. ¹⁰ And David says, O Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, In hearing, your servant hears that Shaul seeks to come to Qeilah to ruin the city for my sake: ¹¹ The masters of Qeilah, shut they me into his hand? Descends Shaul, as your servant hears? O Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, I beseech you, tell your servant. And Yah Veh says, He descends. ¹² Then David says, The masters of Qeilah, shut they me and my men into the hand of Shaul? And Yah Veh says, They shut you.

²¹ And Shaul says, Blessed - you of Yah Veh; for you compassion me.

¹⁹ and that a man finding his enemy, sends him away in a good way: may Yah Veh shalam you for what you work to me this day.

²⁶ And now, my adoni, as Yah Veh lives and as your soul lives, seeing Yah Veh withheld you from coming to blood and from saving yourself by your own hand, now may your enemies and they who seek evil to my adoni, be as Nabal:

³² And David says to Abi Gail, Blessed - Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, who sends you this day to meet me: ³³ and blessed - your perception and blessed - you who restrains me this day from coming to blood and from saving myself by my own hand.

⁴² And Abi Gail hastens and rises and rides on a he burro with five of her lasses who go at her feet; and she goes after the angels of David and becomes his woman. ⁴³ And David takes Achiy Noam of Yizre El; and they both are also his women.

⁶ Then David answers Achiy Melech the Hethiy and Abi Shai the son of Seruyah brother to Yah Ab and says, saying, Who descends with me to Shaul to the camp? And Abi Shai says, I descend with you.

¹⁴ and David calls to the people and to Abi Ner the son of Ner saying, Answer you not, Abi Ner? Then Abi Ner answers and says, Who are you who calls to the sovereign?

² And David rises and passes over with his six hundred men to Achish the son of Maoch the sovereign of Gath: ³ and David settles with Achish at Gath - he and his men - every man with his household, David with his two women, Achiy Noam the Yizre Eliyth and Abi Gail the Karmeliyth - the woman of Nabal.

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DAVID DESTROYS THE AMALEQIY
And so be it, on the third day, David and his men come to Siqlag: and the Amaleqiy strip the south and Siqlag and smite Siqlag and burn it with fire

⁵ for they had captured the two women of David - Achiy Noam the Yizre Eliyth and Abi Gail the woman of Nabal the Karmeliy:

⁷ and David says to Abi Athar the priest the son of Achiy Melech, I beseech you, bring near the ephod. - and Abi Athar brings near the ephod to David. ⁸ And David asks at Yah Veh, saying, Pursue I after this troop? Overtake them? And he says to him, Pursue! In overtaking, overtake! And in rescuing, rescue! ⁹ And David goes - he with his six hundred men and comes to the wadi Besor, and those remaining, stay: ¹⁰ and David pursues - he and four hundred men: for two hundred stay behind - too exhausted to pass over the wadi Besor.

³¹ and to them in Hebron and to all the places where David himself and his men walked.

⁷ And the men of Yisra El beyond the valley and beyond Yarden see the men of Yisra El flee, and Shaul and his sons die, they forsake their cities and flee; and the Peleshethiy come and settle in them.

¹¹ And the settlers of Yabesh Gilad hear what the Peleshethiy work to Shaul; ¹² and all the men of valour rise and go all night and take the body of Shaul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shaan and come to Yabesh and burn them there:

¹² and all the men of valour rise and go all night and take the body of Shaul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shaan and come to Yabesh and burn them there: ¹³ and they take their bones and entomb them under a grove at Yabesh and fast seven days.

²³ Shaul and Yah Nathan - lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they separate not: - swifter than eagles, they prevail mightily over lions.

⁷ and now strengthen your hands and become sons of valour: for your adoni Shaul died and also the house of Yah Hudah anointed me sovereign over them. ⁸
THE SON OF SHAUL REIGNS OVER YISRA EL
And Abi Ner the son of Ner, governor of the host of Shaul, takes Ish Bosheth the son of Shaul and passes him over to Machanayim;

¹¹ And the number of days David is sovereign in Hebron over the house of Yah Hudah is seven years and six months.

¹⁴ And Abi Ner says to Yah Ab, Have the lads now rise and entertain at our face. And Yah Ab says, Rise.

¹⁶ each man holds his friend by the head and his sword in the side of his friend; and they fall together: and they call that place Helgath Hats Surim - in Gibon. ¹⁷ And there is a mighty hard war that day; and Abi Ner and the men of Yisra El are smitten at the face of the servants of David. ¹⁸ And three sons of Seruyah are there: Yah Ab and Abi Shai and Asa El: and Asa El is as swift of foot as one of the gazelles in the field:

²¹ And Abi Ner says to him, Spread to your right or to your left and hold on to one of the lads and take his clothes. - and Asa El wills to not turn aside from after him.

²⁶ And Abi Ner calls to Yah Ab and says, The sword - devours it in perpetuity? Know you not that it embitters in the latter end? How long be it then, ere you say to the people to return from after their brothers? ²⁷ And Yah Ab says, Elohim lives: unless you had worded, surely then in the morning the people had ascended each man from after his brother.

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THE HOUSE OF DAVID STRENGTHENS
And the war is long between the house of Shaul and between the house of David: and David walks on strengthened and the house of Saul walks on poor.

⁷ And Shaul has a concubine; her name is Rispah the daughter of Ajah: and he says to Abi Ner, Why go you in the concubine of my father? ⁸ And Abi Ner inflames mightily for the words of Ish Bosheth and says, Am I the head of a dog because I work Yah Hudah mercy this day - to the house of Shaul your father and to his brothers and to his companions and present you not into the hand of David for visiting me today with a perversion concerning this woman?

²⁷ And Abi Ner returns to Hebron and Yah Ab turns him aside midst the portal to word with him serenely; and smites him under the fifth, so that he dies for the blood of Asa El his brother.

⁵ And Rechab and Baanah the sons of Rimmon the Beerothiy go, and at about the heat of the day come to the house of Ish Bosheth who lies down on a bed at noon: ⁶ and they come midst the house as though to take wheat; and smite him under the fifth: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escape:

⁶ and they come midst the house as though to take wheat; and smite him under the fifth: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escape:

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DAVID ANOINTED SOVEREIGN
Then all the scions of Yisra El come to David to Hebron, and say, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

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DAVID ANOINTED SOVEREIGN
Then all the scions of Yisra El come to David to Hebron, and say, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. ² Also three yesters ago, when Shaul was sovereign over us, it was you who brought out and brought in Yisra El: and Yah Veh said to you, Tend my people Yisra El! Be eminent over Yisra El! ³ So all the elders of Yisra El come to the sovereign to Hebron; and sovereign David cuts a covenant with them in Hebron at the face of Yah Veh: and they anoint David sovereign over Yisra El.

³ So all the elders of Yisra El come to the sovereign to Hebron; and sovereign David cuts a covenant with them in Hebron at the face of Yah Veh: and they anoint David sovereign over Yisra El. ⁴ David is a son of thirty years when he begins to reign; and he reigns forty years. ⁵ In Hebron he reigns over Yah Hudah seven years and six months: and in Yeru Shalem he reigns thirty-three years over all Yisra El and Yah Hudah.

⁵ In Hebron he reigns over Yah Hudah seven years and six months: and in Yeru Shalem he reigns thirty-three years over all Yisra El and Yah Hudah. ⁶ And the sovereign and his men go to Yeru Shalem to the Yebusiy, the settlers of the land: who say to David, saying, Unless you turn aside the blind and the lame, enter not here: and saying, David enters not here.

¹⁷ And the Peleshethiy hear that they anoint David sovereign over Yisra El, all the Peleshethiy ascend to seek David; and David hears thereof and descends to the hold:

¹⁹ And David asks Yah Veh, saying, Ascend I to the Peleshethiy? Give you them into my hand? And Yah Veh says to David, Ascend! For in giving, I give the Peleshethiy into your hand.

²³ And David asks of Yah Veh, and he says, Ascend not; but go around behind them, and come upon them opposite the weepers:

¹⁶ And Yah Ab the son of Seruyah is over the host; and Yah Shaphat the son of Achiy Lud is remembrancer;

³ And the sovereign says, Is there finally a man of the house of Shaul to whom I work the mercy of Elohim? And Siba says to the sovereign, Yah Nathan has yet a son with smitten feet.

⁷ And David says to him, Awe not: for in working, I work you mercy for sake of Yah Nathan your father; and restore all the field of Shaul your father to you - that you eat bread at my table continually.

² And David says, I work mercy to Hanun the son of Nachash as his father worked mercy to me. And David sends to sigh over him by the hand of his servants concerning his father: and the servants of David come into the land of the sons of Ammon.

¹² Strengthen! - Strengthen for our people and for the cities of our Elohim: and Yah Veh works good in his eyes.

²⁵ Then David says to the angel, Say thus to Yah Ab, This word is not evil in your eyes; for thus the sword devours one: strengthen your warfare against the city and demolish it: and you strengthen him.

⁷ And so be it, at the end of forty years, Abi Shalom says to the sovereign, I pray you, that I may go, and shalam the vow I vowed to Yah Veh in Hebron:

²⁰ Yesterday you come - and this day do I have you wander in going with us? Seeing that I go wherever I go, return - return with your brothers: mercy and truth be with you.

¹⁴ And Abi Shalom and all the men of Yisra El say, The counsel of Hushay the Arkiy is better than the counsel of Achiy Thophel: and Yah Veh misvahs to break down the good counsel of Achiy Thophel, so that Yah Veh brings evil on Abi Shalom.

²⁶ And Yisra El and Abi Shalom encamp in the land of Gilad. ²⁷ And so be it, David comes to Machanayim, and Shobi the son of Nachash of Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and Machir the son of Ammi El of Lo Debar and Barzillay the Giladiy of Rogelim

¹¹ And sovereign David sends to Sadoq and to Abi Athar the priests, saying, Word to the elders of Yah Hudah, saying, Why are you the last to return the sovereign to his house? - and the word of all Yisra El comes to the sovereign - to his house.

⁴² And all the men of Yah Hudah answer the men of Yisra El, Because the sovereign is near to us: Why then inflame you for this word? In eating, eat we that of the sovereign? Bears he us any offering?

¹⁰ And Amasa regards not the sword in the hand of Yah Ab: and he smites him therewith in the fifth and pours his inwards to the earth and repeats it not; and he dies: and Yah Ab and Abi Shai his brother pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

¹² And Amasa rolls in blood midst the highway: and the man sees all the people standing still; and he turns Amasa from the highway into the field and casts a cloth on him: and he sees every one coming by him stand still: ¹³ and they remove him from the highway: and all the men pass after Yah Ab to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri:

²³ And Yah Ab is over all the host of Yisra El: and Bena Yah the son of Yah Yada is over the executioners and over the couriers:

⁷ and his words are with Yah Ab the son of Seruyah and with Abi Athar the priest: and they help after Adoni Yah.

¹¹ and the days David reigns over Yisra El are forty years: he reigns seven years in Hebron and reigns thirty-three years in Yeru Shalem:

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YAH AB IS DEATHIFIED
And reports come to Yah Ab: for Yah Ab spread after Adoni Yah though he spread not after Abi Shalom: and Yah Ab flees to the tent of Yah Veh and holds on the horns of the sacrifice altar. ²⁹ And they tell sovereign Shelomoh, Yah Ab flees to the tent of Yah Veh; and behold, beside the sacrifice altar. Then Shelomoh sends Bena Yah the son of Yah Yada saying, Go, encounter him. ³⁰ And Bena Yah comes to the tent of Yah Veh and says to him, Thus says the sovereign, Go. And he says, No; but here I die. And Bena Yah returns word to the sovereign, saying, Thus Yah Ab words and thus he answers me. ³¹ And the sovereign says to him, Work as he worded and encounter him and entomb him; to turn aside the gratuitous blood Yah Ab poured from me and from the house of my father; ³² and Yah Veh returns his blood on his own head - who encountered two men more just and better than he and slaughtered them with the sword my father David not knowing thereof - Abi Ner the son of Ner governor of the host of Yisra El and Amasa the son of Yether governor of the host of Yah Hudah: ³³ their blood returns on the head of Yah Ab and on the head of his seed eternally: but on David and on his seed and on his house and on his throne, there is shalom eternally from Yah Veh. ³⁴ So Bena Yah the son of Yah Yada ascends and encounters him and deathifies him: and he is entombed in his own house in the wilderness: ³⁵ and the sovereign gives Bena Yah the son of Yah Yada over the host in his stead: and the sovereign gives Sadoq the priest in the stead of Abi Athar.

¹¹ And the sovereign of Yisra El answers and says, Word to him, He who girds halals not as he who loosens.

¹⁰ in smiting, you smote Edom and your heart lifts you: be honored and settle at your house: for why coax you to evil only, to fall - you and Yah Hudah with you? ¹¹ And Amaz Yah hearkens not: and Yah Ash sovereign of Yisra El ascends; and he and Amaz Yah sovereign of Yah Hudah see one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, Yah Hudah: ¹² and Yah Hudah is smitten at the face of Yisra El; and every man flees to his tent.

² And he works straight in the eyes of Yah Veh and walks in all the way of David his father and turns not aside to the right or to the left.

¹³ and Yishay births his firstbirthed Eli Ab and Abi Nadab the second and Shimah the third ¹⁴ Nethan El the fourth Radday the fifth ¹⁵ Osem the sixth David the seventh ¹⁶ - their sisters, Seruyah and Abi Gail. And the sons of Seruyah: Abi Shai and Yah Ab and Asa El - three.

¹⁶ - their sisters, Seruyah and Abi Gail. And the sons of Seruyah: Abi Shai and Yah Ab and Asa El - three.

⁴ - these six birthed to him in Hebron; and he reigns there seven years and six months: and he reigns thirty-three years in Yeru Shalem.

³³ And Ner births Qish; and Qish births Shaul; and Shaul births Yah Nathan and Malki Shua and Abi Nadab and Esh Baal.

³⁹ And Ner births Qish and Qish births Shaul and Shaul births Yah Nathan and Malki Shua and Abi Nadab and Esh Baal.

³ And all the elders of Yisra El come to the sovereign to Hebron: and David cuts a covenant with them in Hebron at the face of Yah Veh: and they anoint David sovereign over Yisra El - according to the word of Yah Veh by the hand of Shemu El.

⁶ And David says, Whoever smites the Yebusiy first becomes head and governor. So Yah Ab the son of Seruyah ascends first and becomes head:

²⁶ And the mighty of valour: Asa El the brother of Yah Ab, El Hanan the son of Dodo of Beth Lechem,

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THE WARRIORS OF DAVID OF SIQLAG
And these come to David to Siqlag while they are restrained because of the face of Shaul the son of Qish: and they are among the mighty - helpers of the war: ² they are kissed with bows and can use both the right and the left in stones and arrows from a bow - of the brothers of Shaul - of Ben Yamin. ³ The head is Achiy Ezer and Yah Ash the sons of Shemaah the Gibathiy, and Yezav El and Pelet the sons of Azmaveth, and Berachah and Yah Hu the Anathothiy, ⁴ and Yishma Yah the Giboniy mighty among the thirty and over the thirty, and Yirme Yah and Yachazi El, and Yah Hanan and Yah Zabad the Gederahiy, ⁵ El Uzay and Yerimoth and Beal Yah and Shemar Yah and Shaphat Yah the Haruphiy, ⁶ El Qanah and Yishshi Yah and Azar El and Yah Ezer and Yashob Am the Qorachiy, ⁷ and Yoelah and Zebad Yah the sons of Yerocham of Gedor. ⁸ And of the Gadiy the mighty of valour and men of hostility separate themselves to David to the hunthold to the wilderness for the war - who line up shield and javelin whose faces are the faces of lions and as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:

⁷ and give for the service of the house of Elohim five thousand rounds and ten thousand darics of gold and a myriad rounds of silver and a myriad and eight thousand rounds of copper and one hundred thousand rounds of iron.

²⁷ and the days he reigns over Yisra El are forty years: he reigns seven years in Hebron and he reigns thirty-three in Yeru Shalem:

¹⁴ - entombed in his own tombs, which he dug for himself in the city of David; and lay him in a bed filled with spices - species by species of perfumed ointment: and they burn a mighty great burning for him.

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YAH RAM REIGNS OVER YAH HUDAH
And Yah Shaphat lies down with his fathers - entombed with his fathers in the city of David; and Yah Ram his son reigns in his stead.

² Until when set you an end of utterances? Discern - and afterwards we word.

² Until when grieve you my soul and crush me with utterances?

² El lives - who turns aside my judgment; and Shadday - who embitters my soul:

² O you sons of men, until when is my honor for shame - you who love vanity and seek after lies? Selah.

³³ He places my feet as the hinds and stands me on my bamahs;

⁴ Have me know your ways, O Yah Veh; teach me your paths: ⁵ aim me in your truth and teach me; for you are Elohim of my salvation: I await you all the day.

⁴ This one I ask of Yah Veh - I seek after: to settle in the house of Yah Veh all the days of my life; to see the pleasantness of Yah Veh and to search in his manse.

³ He sends from the heavens and saves me from the reproach of him who swallows after me. Selah. Elohim sends his mercy and his truth.

⁸ Galad is mine; Menash Sheh is mine; Ephrayim is the stronghold of my head; Yah Hudah is my statute setter;

¹⁵ - you, blessed of Yah Veh who worked the heavens and earth.

⁸ that I hear your mercy in the morning; for in you I confide: that I know the way wherein I walk; for I lift up my soul to you.

¹⁰ He neither delights in the might of the horse; nor takes pleasure in the legs of a man. ¹¹ Yah Veh takes pleasure in them who awe him; who await his mercy.

⁵ Confide in Yah Veh with all your heart and lean not to your own discernment: ⁶ in all your ways know him and he straightens your paths:

²⁷ spread neither to the right nor to the left; turn aside your foot from evil.

²³ It is as ridicule to a fool to work intrigue; and to a man of discernment, wisdom.

²² Stray they not, who inscribe evil? And mercy and truth to them who inscribe good?

¹ A tender answer turns away fury; and contorting words ascend wrath.

¹⁴ The beginning of strife is as a bursting of water leave off contention ere it faces a quarrel.

¹⁸ Every fabrication is established by counsel; and with counsels, work war.

²⁹ See a man skillful in his work? He sets at the face of sovereigns; he sets not at the face of darkness.

⁸ Go not forth hastily to strive, What work you when your friend finally shames you?

¹⁸ as the rabid who shoot fiery darts, arrows and death, ¹⁹ thus the man who deceives his friend and says, Am I not laughing?

¹ A man of reproofs, with hardened neck, breaks in a blink - and there is no healing.

¹⁰ What became? its name is already called; and know that it is humanity: he is not able to plead his cause with him who is mightier than he.

¹¹ I returned and saw under the sun, neither is the race to the swift nor the war to the mighty nor yet bread to the wise nor yet riches to the discerning nor yet charism to the knowing: for time and coincidence happens to all.

¹⁷ until the day breathes, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, as a gazelle or a fawn hart on the mountains of Bether.

¹⁴ Flee, my beloved - likened to a gazelle or to a fawn hart on the mountains of spices.

²⁰ and if you refuse and rebel, you are consumed with the sword: for the mouth of Yah Veh words.

⁷ And you say, I am a lady eternally: so that you neither set these to your heart nor rememer the latter end thereof.

³⁰ In vain I smote your sons; they took no discipline: your own sword devoured your prophets as a ruining lion.

²¹ Until when see I the ensign and hear the voice of the shophar?

¹² The ravagers come on all the barrens in the wilderness: for the sword of Yah Veh devours from the end of the land even to the end of the land - no shalom to any flesh.

¹² and they take all the men, and go to fight with Yishma El the son of Nethan Yah: and they find him by the great waters in Gibon.

¹⁰ for this is the day of Adonay Yah Veh Sabaoth - a day of avengement, to avenge him of his tribulators: and the sword devours and satiates - satiates with their blood for a sacrifice to Adonay Yah Veh Sabaoth in the north land by the river Euphrates.

¹⁴ Tell it in Misrayim and have them hear in Migdol; and have them hear in Noph and in Tachpanches! Say, Stand fast and prepare! For the sword consumes all around you!

³⁷ Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Yet for this I am enquired of by the house of Yisra El to work it for them; I abound them with humanity as a flock

⁶ and the sword whirls on his cities and finishes off his branches and consumes because of their own counsels.

¹⁴ and the flight destructs from the swift: neither the strong strengthens his force nor the mighty rescues his soul:

¹⁹ Yah Veh Adonay is my valour and he sets my feet as the hinds; and he has me tread on my bamahs. To his eminence, with my strummers.

⁷ Blessed - the merciful: for they obtain mercy.

⁴⁴ But I word to you, Love your enemies; eulogize them who curse you; do good to them who hate you; and pray for them who threaten you and persecute you;

¹⁶ Behold, I apostolize you as sheep among wolves: so be thoughtful as serpents, and unadulterated as doves.

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TREATY OF SHALOM
Or what sovereign, going to encounter war against another sovereign, indeed sits not down first, and counsels whether he is able by ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³² But if not, while the other is yet afar off, he apostolizes a presbytry and asks for shalom.

²⁸ You are they who continue to abide with me in my testings: ²⁹ and I covenant to you a sovereigndom, exactly as my Father covenanted to me;

²⁶ And the next day he appears to them as they strive, to set them at shalom again, saying, Men, You, brothers, why injure one another?

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ADMONITIONS AND SALUTES
Watch! Stand firm in the trust! Manly! Powerful!

¹⁰ Finally, my brothers, be dynamized in Adonay and in the power of his might.

¹⁶ Adonay give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me and shamed not of my fetter: ¹⁷ But, being in Rome, he sought me out very diligently and found me. ¹⁸ Adonay give him to find mercy from Yah Veh in that day: and as much as he ministered to me at Ephesus, you know much better.

¹⁸ If he has injured or has indebted aught reckon that to me; ¹⁹ I Paulos scribe with my own hand, I - I fully satisfy the penalty: that I word not to you how you are indebted to me - even your own self.